Maui Arts League announces plein air workshops for artists, students

November 15, 2018

LAHAINA - Maui Arts League will sponsor two oil painting workshops in West Maui, on Feb. 13-15 and Feb. 25-27, 2019. Each three-day workshop offers classroom, demonstration and personalized field instruction for 12 professional or amateur artists.

Students will build their understanding of color theory, drawing, composition, values, hues, tones and brushwork. They will produce satisfying landscapes or portraits with personalized instruction and critique.

Her skillful, "painterly" style expresses truth with the motion, muse and soul of the moment. Equally expert at landscape, still life and portraiture, Baker's friendly and often humorous approach to life colors her teaching and artwork.

Clare has won first place honors at the Logan Summerfest Plein Air Competition and Art on the Green. For him, painting in oils is a spiritual adventure.

His works declare the grandeur of the universe, from wild grasses flowing across the foreground like a green rivulet to broad views of the majestic Rocky Mountains, carving sunlight into blazing peaks and blue-black valleys.

A master of large natural forms, Clare offers students eye skills that cannot be learned except by attempting landscapes under a big sky. For students whose devil is in the detail, Clare teaches how to see creation in large blocks of form and shadow.

Both art workshops are part of the Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational art event on Feb. 16-24, now in its 14th year.

The public will have three opportunities to observe 24 nationally acclaimed plein air artists creating paintings outdoors in less than four hours.

Private ticketed events for collectors will precede each art exhibit and early art sale entry. Seven public art sales offer everyone opportunities to meet artists and buy fine art they watched being painted.

The Pioneer Inn will host a public silent auction and art history lecture by famous art curator Jean Stern, associate director of UC Irvine Museum and Institute for California Art.

The finale weekend on Feb. 22-24 boasts a "quick draw" two-hour paint out and special art sale at the Royal Lahaina Resort and the "Art to Heart" ticketed awards banquet.

A public exhibit and art sale of 200-plus fresh originals continue in the 4,000-square-foot Royal Lahaina Resort Ballroom all day Saturday and Sunday, with educational forums and art demonstrations by visiting artists.